Absent growers remain a challenge

Shayal Devi

29 January, 2019, 11:44 am

Tim Brown (left) has a chat with farmer Sahib Ali at the National Sugar Policy consultation at FSC Navo sector in Nadi. Picture: BALJEET SINGH

ABSENTEE growers remain one of the major challenges for the sugar industry. Former parliamentarian and farmer Prem Singh raised this issue during the National Sugar Industry Policy consultations in Nadi last week. “The sugar industry has to be looked at as a standalone entity,” he said. “We can identify and collate data that is with […]